Personal statement

Emma is an experienced higher education leader specialising in research and innovation in the arts and humanities. Her career has included working as a university Pro Vice-Chancellor for Research and Innovation, as an Associate Director at the Arts & Humanities Research Council (now part of UKRI), as a member of HE sector funding and advisory panels, and as a non-executive board member for a number of higher education institutions. 

She has a doctorate in Music and is a Fellow of the Royal College of Art and of the Royal Society of Arts. While completing her doctorate she worked as an editor on the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians and as the administrator of the one of the UK’s leading early music ensembles, the Consort of Musicke.